No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

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