Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.