Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

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

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.