Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.