Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that dont really matter.
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.
I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.
If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
