The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.