We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.