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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.