Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.