Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.