All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.