Pleasant words are the food of love.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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

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

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.