Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.