If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.

Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.