The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.
Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.