Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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 poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.