None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
When you name yourself, you always name another.
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
Why be a man when you can be a success?