I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the read more

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Writing is a craft not an art.

Writing is a craft not an art.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.