The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.