Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A language is like living skin itself.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Habit: the shackles of the free