Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.