Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It read more

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially
if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.