Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.