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.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

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.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.