You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

God made time, but man made haste.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.