Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.