Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They