Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.