It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.