It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho