The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.

You have the strength to survive any situation.

I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.

I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.