The property of power is to protect.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

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

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.