These have been wonderful years. How many happy, happy times we have traveled about together! Day and night, in stage coaches, on ...freight trains, over the mountains and across the prairies, hungry and tired, we have wandered. The work was sometimes hard and discouraging but those were happy and useful years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhil...l. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. No one will listen except the Mobil P.R. man. List what we want to say M arrange... items in order of priority M then say them plainly and bluntly.... Hit hard and early. Don't apologize or evade tough issues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think... too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent, and all will be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard ...and tortuous to write a bad one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. The one esteems nature as rooted and fast; ...the other, as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin,... Nor murdering hate, can enter in. All is now secure and fast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to th...em, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »