If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.

If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone
into your mind. You read more

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone
into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by
changing what goes into your mind.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complains, never explains read more

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:
that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong read more

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft
falling.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft
falling.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into read more

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,
you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of
life that's far below what you deserve.