Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.