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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
To try to be better is to be better.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.