You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.