I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.