It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.