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

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Only the educated are free.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.