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

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.