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

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.