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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

A room without books is a body without soul

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.