Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.