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

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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