Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him