The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far mor…...

This stock-market thing was a great game, but, after all, everybody just can't live on gambling. Somebody has to do some work. - Will Rogers Ethics should precede economics... We know this because w…...

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not d…...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. - George Bernard Shaw If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished -- there will always be work you…...

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, beca…...

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but." - Henry Ward Beecher Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience lat…...

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. - Edward Gibbon Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. - Henry Ward Beecher To argue with a man who…...

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. - Anne Sulliv…...

You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, -- "Let there be truth between us two forever more." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Be t…...

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit o…...