Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Nevercut what you can untie.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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.

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.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour