Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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 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

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

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

Silenceis the mother of truth.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.