You can observe a lot just by watching.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

The Oxen and the Butchers The oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

she goes through money like a fart through a pair of jeans.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

He who talks much cannot always talk well.

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

When asking a question of someone your not sure of, only ask if you know half the answer.

A young minister sitting down to dinner was about to say Grace when he opened the casserole dish that his thrifty bride had prepared from countless refrigerator leftovers. "I don't know," he said dubiously. "It seems to me that we've blessed all this stuff before.".

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.