Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.