A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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…

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.