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

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.