A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.