Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Do not be afraid to be afraid.

One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.