Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.