An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him