You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

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

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.