History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.