An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

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

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.