The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.
We are never prepared for what we expect.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.
...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.
The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.
You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.
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