Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The property of power is to protect.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.