Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.