A Blossom Must Break The Sheath It

It's A Good Thing To Learn Early That Other People's Opinions Do Not Matter, Unless They Happen To Be True.

Luck Enters Into Every Contingency. You Are A Fool If You Forget It -- And A Greater Fool If You Count Upon It.

Neither Saints Nor Angels Have Ever Increased My Faith In This Enigma Life; But What Are Called 'common Men And Women' Have Increased It.

The Only Creative Power I Know Is That Of What Might Roughly Be Called 'love'; Not Of Course A Sentimental Love: A Far More Impersonal And Less Individual Emotion. I Sometimes Think That Migratory Birds May Have It For Each Other. They Fly In The Same Direction, And Have Never Been Seen To Interfere With Each Other's Flights.

A Desire That Has Never Been Fulfilled Is Considerably Less Acute Than One That Has Been Fulfilled And Then Checked At The Source.