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 comforter's head never aches.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.