Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.