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

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom