We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.