Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.