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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.