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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.