Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

... 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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.