"When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily."

“Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.”

“If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.”

“Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.”

“We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.”

“Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.”

“To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.”

Source : John Woolman (1860). “A journal of the life, gospel labors and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman: to which are added, his last epistle, and other writings”, p.28

“You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”

“Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.”

Source : "Expert: Africa Needs More than Foreign Aid". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 6, 2005.