There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.