If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Stability is not immobility

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

... 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

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.