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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

When weblame, we give away our power.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.