Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.