Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
Willa CatherAh! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa CatherArtistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
Willa Cather