The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.