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

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Necessity truns lion into fox.