The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.