The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
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.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.
You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.