When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Patience is the art of hoping.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

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.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.