A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.