If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.