Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

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.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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

... 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

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.