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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

God has created the world in play.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.