Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.

Some things are best mended by a break.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.