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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.