How difficult it is to be simple.

There's no love without pain.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

How difficult it is to be simple.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.