Ignorance is not an extension of time

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Strength is the outcome of need.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.