The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.
Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.