There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.