Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.