The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.