Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. read more

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Be who you are and be that well.

Be who you are and be that well.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea read more

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.