The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

He understands badly who listens badly.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.