Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

God made time, but man made haste.

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

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.