Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.