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

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

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

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.