True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.