As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

A room without books is a body without soul

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.