A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.

When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates The pet of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room-- Glittering square of colored ice, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes and citrons and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes.

Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.

Fancy light from Fancy caught.

Availability is better than ability for God.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.

Roger Normand: Bomb now. Die later.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.

Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you want remembered.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

In light of activists' global boycotts of war profiteers, globalization begins to look evitable. We reverse imperialist's sanctions with the people's sanctions.