Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The present is never a happy state to any being

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

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

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.