When you are true listener, you will hear what is not said.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

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

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

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.