Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

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

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The present is never a happy state to any being

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?