It’s a Secret of Adulthood: The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
Hope is a waking dream.
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his pe...
When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.