“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
“Do not depend on the hope of results.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves.”
“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form—perhaps the most common form—of its innate violence.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke.”
“Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”
“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking, or economizing.”
“Genius can breathe freely only in an atmosphere of freedom.”