Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.