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

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.