Quotes

There's a fine line between creativity and stupidity. They both involve deactivating the rational part of your brain and then seeing what comes out.

"Every now and again," says Rozelle, "I would get the standard, 'That is horrible. How do you feel about the war?'" The fearless captain would respond: "How do you feel about your freedom? If you aren't willing to die for it, then you aren't American."

Mountains are the beginning and end of all natural scenery.

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced what you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has let you down.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle--they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.