The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.