It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Power comes from sincere service

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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