A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Look out for the people who allow you to do all the talking.
"Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? "
You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.