The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out