Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

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

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.