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

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.