What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.