Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Compromise.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.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.