Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.