“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
“You talk to a person of flippancy at his or her level! If you do not, he or she will surely tell all.”
“Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.”
“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
“There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.”