To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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