What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity." Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—to acquire it.
Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.
When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .
Golden lads and girls all must, like chimmney-sweepers, come to dust.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
I cannot live to hear the news from England. But I do prophesy th' election lights On Fortinbras; he has my dying voice. So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less, Which have solicited - the rest is silence.
A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
