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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.