Patience is the art of hoping.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.