To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence read more

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.