A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.