Only the educated are free.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to