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

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.