Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

Always say less than necessary.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.