It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.