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

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

If youare 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.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.