Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being. . . that is the true glory of sport.
An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?