The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. |
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. |
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. |
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. |
There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen |
There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them. |
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. |
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people |
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places. |
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. |
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting. |
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. |
This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are. |
Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty |
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. |