Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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