A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us, how we take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end.

Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.