You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more, to do more, even when it's a team sport. So I think striving for glory is a natural subject for a writer. Seeking fame.
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators. . . All disciplines can be narrow.
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.