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.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.