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.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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.

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,

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.