Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

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.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.