Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself