Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.