No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.