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

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

God has created the world in play.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.