Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

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

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

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.