There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.

That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws...

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

said, looking for a job on Broadway.

You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

And he learned that when Johnson gave an assignment, no excuses were accepted. He used to say, 'I want only can-do people.' That was one of his favorite expressions. 'I only want can-do people around....

If you do everything, you'll win

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never...

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.

I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.

She generally gave herself very good advice {though she very seldom followed it}, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly...

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough {down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying}, he can't...

It points to the moon and if you fail, at least you will be among the stars.

Suppose it never stops?" she whispered."The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood.

Fear is a powerful stimulant.

When we pray we admit defeat.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?{Sherlock Holmes on his .}

I turned from my window. Suddenly it seemed odd for my neighbors on both sides to have visitors while I had none. For the first time, I felt lonely at 'Sconset.Let's cook, Frannie said energetically....

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a...

Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.