A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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…

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.