The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Life is different than teacher, A Teacher teaches lesson, then keeps the exam. But the life keeps the exam first, then teaches the lesson,

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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