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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.