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

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.