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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.