To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

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 happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.