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

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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

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

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur