Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.