Ansset did not understand the words, but the tone of voice was clear. He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them

What do I tell him? Tell him that I will see him. She was startled. She was confused. She abandoned words, and sang her confusion. The song was meek and uncont…

He had expected many things. But not to have a 9 year old boy, however beautiful, speak with more command than an admiral of the fleet. Yet the boy's voice was…

To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them co…

Communication is - start by understanding - your own understanding about people. Even though you want them to understand you, you know, it is - unless you unde…

... making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's point…