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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.