If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.