There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.