Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.