Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

You can't out-perform your self-image.

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.