Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.