Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

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

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to