Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

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.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Ability is poor men's wealth