I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMan must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLeaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton