Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

God made time, but man made haste.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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