Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.