A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

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

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

You cannot 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.

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.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

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.