Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.