The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.