Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

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

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.