Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Never mistake motion for action.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.