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

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.