You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

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.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing: