A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.