Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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