You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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

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...

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.