What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.