An artist must be willing to fail.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

War is an ugly thing， but not the ugliest of things； the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.