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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.