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

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?