Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.