Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

To beprepared is half the victory.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.