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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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