In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology read more

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Failure is an event, never a person.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not read more

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and read more

I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens read more

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.