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

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.