Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.