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

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Our distrust is very expensive.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.