Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.