The first duty of love is to listen.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.