You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol