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

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

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.