Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Renown and repose do not go together.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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