He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

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

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.