The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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

What is well done is done soon enough.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

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

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.