If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.