To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I'd learned my lesson.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.