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 astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The comforter's head never aches.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.