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

He understands badly who listens badly.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

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.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.