“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”

“What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.”

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”

“HIGGINSI find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.PICKERINGAt what, for example?HIGGINSOh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.”