If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.