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

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The comforter's head never aches.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.