Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.