Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense
What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.