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

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

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.