Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

What is well done is done soon enough.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.