Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

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.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Keep things 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