Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.