Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.