Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

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.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

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

People love to talk but hate to listen.

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.