If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.