You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.