Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

The first duty of love is to listen.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.