The Open Mat: New Thinking for the Oldest Sport

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

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All movements go too far.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The average person thinks he isn't.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.