A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.