If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

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.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

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

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.