you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.