I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
The best way out of a problem is through it.
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.
Fools, through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
