To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.