'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
No.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 08:18 sati.