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

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp