Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.
Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.