A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

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

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Genius is a long impatience.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.