Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

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

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.