Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

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 can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.