The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
'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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.