Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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