Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.