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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.