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

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.