Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.