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

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Habit: the shackles of the free

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

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

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.