The key to understanding life is to understand the interactions between its components.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."