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

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Renown and repose do not go together.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.