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

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.