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

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.