Susan Erz

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

The menu is not the meal.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

There is nothing so stable as change.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.