Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.