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

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.