To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

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

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

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.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.