Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.