You should not live one way in private, another in public.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.