Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

The present is never a happy state to any being