Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Every advantage has its tax

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

They know enough who know how to learn.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

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.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.