Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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 less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.