Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.

A bullet in the right place can change the world.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.