If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.