Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.

XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: I

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to do something else.