I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.