Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Every advantage has its tax

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.