If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.