Prayer changes things by changing people.

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 flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.