A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.