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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A language is like living skin itself.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The comforter's head never aches.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.