the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .