Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.