Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.