A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.