Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.