Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.