Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.