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

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

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