You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.