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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.