Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.