You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.
Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.
I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group. " I want to write down this idea of a group of artists who treat it like a band. Like, "Who made the painting?" "All four of us did. "