Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.