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

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

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.