To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

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