Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.