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

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

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

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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 nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.