A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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