Neversay more than is necessary.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.