To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.