One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

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.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.