Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.