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

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.