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

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.