Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.