War does not determine who is right - only who is left

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion