Alice Duer Miller

"I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth."

"Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us."

"Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others"

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue."

"People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer."

"People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer."

"If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."

"It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival."