Keepthings 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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.