You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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 aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.