Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

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

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.