Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.