An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.