You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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