To understand everything is to forgive everything.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.