Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.