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

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.