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

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

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.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.