A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

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

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.