Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I thought I had swell ideas and wonderful musicians but no one else did.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.
Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
Ive never had a problem with how I look. Id rather have lunch with friends than go to the gym.
Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.
It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering the nuclear age, but entering a new geological epoch, what geologists call the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity is having severe and deleterious effects on the environment in which human and other life can survive.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn’t have a choice.
