You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.