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Every day, you have to give it your best shot.

Grown-ups love figures...If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: "I saw a house that cost $20,000." Then they would exclaim: "Oh, what a pretty house that is!"

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’

If you're using frequency as a tactic to make up for the fact that you're being ignored, you can certainly do better.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?

If you have a job where someone is telling you exactly what to do, they can find someone else cheaper to do it.

Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.