"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"
"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."
"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."