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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.