Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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

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 shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.