Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

He understands badly who listens badly.