You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.