One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.