When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
If winter comes can spring be far behind?
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into...
The days you work are the best days.
I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Genius is eternal patience.
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
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