Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

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

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.