A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Keep things 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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.