A language is like living skin itself.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over 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