Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.