Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Stability is not immobility

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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