What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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