It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves- in finding themselves.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.