We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

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.

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

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.