Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

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

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.