Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.