Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.