Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.
I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.
If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.
Technically, we're all half centaur.
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.