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

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.