A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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