Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Successful innovations become conventions.

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.

Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.