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

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

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.