If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.