“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.”
“I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.”
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
“The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.”
“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”
“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.”