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.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.