You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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,

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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.