You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.