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.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour