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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.