The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.