A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,