Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Our distrust is very expensive.