If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
I like to highlight people's superpowers.
You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time. " But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.