Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

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

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.