You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

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.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.