Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.
in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.
That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.
Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.
There are times when, for many years, I've been irrelevant - and it was OK! I had my moment. No one is responsible for anyone else's dreams. I don't need a babysitter. I just needed to know that I could do this. I just think that my happiest time or my best time, upon reflection, is that I had the courage to do this.
There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd like to book you into the Aspen Comedy Festival," and we said, "Well, there isn't really a show to book in, this is just a little showcase and it's really our workshop. " And she said, "No, it's great, I love it, just do exactly what you did. "
You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.