The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

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

Keepthings 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

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.