Act As If It Were

There Are Seeds Of Self-destruction In All Of Us That Will Bear Only Unhappiness If Allowed To Grow.

The Genius Keeps All His Days The Vividness And Intensity Of Interest That A Sensitive Child Feels In His Expanding World.

Fiction Supplies The Only Philosophy That May Readers Know; It Establishes Their Ethical, Social, And Material Standards; It Confirms Them In Their Prejudices Or Opens Their Minds To A Wider World.

All That Is Necessary To Break The Spell Of Inertia And Frustration Is This: Act As If It Were Impossible To Fail. That Is The Talisman, The Formula, The Command Of Right-about-face Which Turns Us From Failure Towards Success.

Proverbs Are For The Most Part Rules Of Moral, Or, Still More Properly, Of Prudential Conduct.