Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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,

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.