"Generosity is often the stalking horse of control."

“I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.”

Source : Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.16, Conari Press

“I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!”

“If you have a lemon; make lemonade.”

Source : Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr

“I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.”

“Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.”

“In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.”

Source : "The Myth and Reality of the Japanese Corporation". Chief Executive Magazine, Summer 1981.

“I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people.”

“My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”