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

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.