Nevercut what you can untie.

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

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.