What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

When good things are on the horizon you keep walking towards the sun.

Passion focuses your mind to one thing that you are doing and leaves no space for something else to enter” - Ashutosh in the book "Songs of the Mist

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Committees do harm merely by existing.

We're thanking God. Without him, we wouldn't have made it.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.