The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Time bears away all things.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home...
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it ,its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.
Pain is never permanent.
The present will not long endure.
Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.