Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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