Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.