When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.