My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

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.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.