Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned