He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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 leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.