Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

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

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Prayer changes things by changing people.