Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Stability is not immobility

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen