Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.