I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.