It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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

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

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.