""The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.""
""In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.""
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."