A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.