Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

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