Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.