Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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.

Keep things 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

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.