A good talker is sensitive to expression, to tone and color and inflection in human speech. Because he himself is articulate, he can help others to a… - Sydney J. Harris

People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness — and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

"I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as "symbols" of family life. What they want are ideal children, not real ones; and as soon as the real ones show no intention of conforming to the ideal in the parent's mind, they are treated as burdens, shipped away to school or otherwise neglected."