There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, " said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.

Every man lives by exchanging.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

You know I've had work banned.

Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.