It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen