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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

To teach isto learn twice.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.