Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.