You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.