Control your emotion or it will control you |
Courage is grace under pressure. |
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. |
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. |
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. |
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. |
Develop a built-in bullshit detector. |
Develop a built-in bullshit detector. |
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your |
Drinking is a way of ending the day |
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. |
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. |
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. |
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. |
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. |