You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?