Silenceis the mother of truth.

Ittakes time to save time.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.