Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.
You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.