To act is easy; to think is hard.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.