Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.