The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.