A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.