Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.