Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.