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

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.