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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.