Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

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