The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.