Quotes from David Grayson

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Adventure is not outside a man it is within.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability!-Life in the making?

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.