It's nerve and brass, audace and disrespect, and leaping-before-you-look and what-the-hellism, that must be developed.

It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's point…

First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.

You have never, I think, known real Grief-panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives-you and me particularly. I'm not sur…

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Coura…

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.