If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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…

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.