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

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.