If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
Confident because of our caution
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems