Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.