From That House There Has Come So

When Good People In Any Country Cease Their Vigilance And Struggle, Then Evil Men Prevail.

A Knowledge Of History As Detailed As Possible Is Essential If We Are To Comprehend The Present And Be Prepared For The Future. Fate...is Not The Blind Superstition Or Helplessness That Waits Stupidly For What May Happen. Fate Is Unalterable Only In The Sense That Given A Cause, A Certain Result Must Follow, But No Cause Is Inevitable In Itself, And Man Can Shape His World If He Does Not Resign Himself To Ignorance.

No Writer, I Believe, Should Attempt A Novel Before He Is Thirty, And Not Then Unless He Has Been Hopelessly And Helplessly Involved In Life. For The Writer Who Goes Out To Find Material For A Novel, As A Fishermen Goes Out To Sea To Fish, Will Certainly Not Write A Good Novel. Life Has To Be Lived Thoughtlessly, Unconsciously, At Full Tilt And For No Purpose Except Its Own Sake Before It Becomes, Eventually, Good Material For A Novel.

The Secret Of Joy In Work Is Contained In One Word - Excellence. To Know How To Do Something Well Is To Enjoy It.

Doing And Being Are Very Closely Tied Together, And Unless You Are Doing What You Secretly Want To Do, You Aren't Able To Be The Sort Of Person You Want To Be.