The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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