It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.