Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

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

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.