Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

As a final incentive before giving up a

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.