The Development Compass

“One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.”

“She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.”

“Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.”

“True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.”

“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”

“Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”

“I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you’re lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they’d crush you if they could. There’s honesty.”