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

Nevercut what you can untie.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.