When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.