With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in read more

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour read more

I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a read more

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to
handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.