Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.