Genius is a long impatience.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

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

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.