One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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