One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.