You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.