A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.