Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

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

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The first duty of love is to listen.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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