Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.
A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.