Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.