Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.