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

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.