"Life itself is a quotation."

Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.

You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we complained so bitterly about our problems.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

'Tis deeds must win the prize.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

It takes just as much strength to handle the good things that happen to you as the bad.

Hope... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

There is strength in the union even of very sorry men.