I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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