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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

To teach isto learn twice.