You can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.