James Thurber

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

It is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Don’t get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true.