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

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.