To beprepared is half the victory.

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

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.