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

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.