When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.