Every one excels in something in which another fails.
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Find a pile of gold and sit on it.
Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.
People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.