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

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

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

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.

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

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

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