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

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.