Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.