Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.