You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

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

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.