A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.