Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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