Nevercut what you can untie.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.