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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.