One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

‘By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.’

‘it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.’

“I can’t think of six things I would like to change about you. I love you the way you are.”

The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

you realise their importance, and recognise it sincerely.

‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’

J. Pierpont Morgan observed, in one of his analytical interludes, that a person usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one.

So, as I have already said, Lincoln put the letter aside, for he had learnt by bitter experience that sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility.