Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

... 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