Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.