Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.