A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.