“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.