Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.