Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.