If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.