The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.