Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. Joan Halifax
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one's public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more. Judith Martin
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5. . . . I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. Gore Vidal