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.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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.