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

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The greatest prayer is patience.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.