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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.