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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.