Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.