This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

The future is the shape of things to come.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.