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

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.