Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.