In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

A world without hope, but no despair

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

We create our fate everyday