Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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 fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Faith is continuation of reason.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.