Patience is the art of hoping.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.