Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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…

Ittakes time to save time.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.