Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature.
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.