A good conscience is the best divinity.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...