False leaders proclaim to have all the answers. True leaders listen.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.