Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.
Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.