Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

No strength within, no respect without.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.