Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

There are places we all come from - deep-rooty-common places - that make us who they are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our b…

What we learn in kindergarten comes up again and again in our lives as long as we live. In far more complex, polysyllabic forms, to be sure. In lectures, encyc…

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: 'What you are doing to me is not just,' you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. Bu…

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…

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…