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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

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.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.