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

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.