It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Genius is a long impatience.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.