"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
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"Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it."
"If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts."
"God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him."
"If the future and the past really exist, where are they?"
"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."
"If you can play the blues, you can do anything."
"Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right"
"If you can't, then you must!"
"If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential."
"The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time."
"Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be."
"If I fail more than you do, I win."
"It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse."
"Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly."
"If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money."
"I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe"
"If you don't act on life, life will act on you"
"If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing."
"...one cannot lodge in if."