Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.