Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.