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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. (via Joy of Quotes)"
Rollo May
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (via Joy of Quotes)"
Rudyard Kipling
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"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. (via Quoteland.com)"
Ramsey Clark
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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. (via Book of Famous Quotes)"
Walter Benjamin
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"Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner. (via Directory Journal)"
Sigourney Weaver
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. (via Brainy Quote)"
Maya Angelou
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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."
Douglas Engelbart
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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
Chuck Tanner
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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Aaron Allston
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"It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
Tom Petri
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
Elbert Hubbard
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy
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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honour, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
David Mallet
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"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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"Patience: a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."
Ambrose Bierce
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"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."
James Agate
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"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Oscar Wilde
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time."
Thomas Carlyle
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
Vincent Van Gogh
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
Albert Camus
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"Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again."
African proverb
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"No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile."
Malian proverb
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"When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet."
African proverb
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"People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way."
African proverb
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"Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble."
African proverb
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"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
George Carlin
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"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
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