Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put read more

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as read more

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".

Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his read more

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened