Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.