One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

To teach isto learn twice.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

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.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.