The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.