A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

That's the best way to cross the Atlantic.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus.

Have courage, be capable of loving.... Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.