The essence of poverty is that tomorrow’s uncertainties devour today’s possibilities.
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.