The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Compromise,n. 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.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.