If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

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.

Stability is not immobility

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.