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

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.