Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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 fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.