The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Our errors are steps on the way.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking