It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Life is different than teacher, A Teacher teaches lesson, then keeps the exam. But the life keeps the exam first, then teaches the lesson,

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.