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

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Those who trust us educate us.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it