People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.