If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.