Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.