When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries you don't just turn it off one day.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve journeying on its way to form?

Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

The real man smiles in trouble gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.

This week the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.