I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.
Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.
Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.
Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.
Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.
Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.
America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G. K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.