To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key read more

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom read more

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it read more

If you love something let it go, and if it comes back - that doesn't mean a damn thing; it can just leave you again later.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.