Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures

A curious mind is never bored.

Stress is always a stranger to any mind that's in love with the spirit of gratitude.

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.