"It often happens that things come into..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.”

“Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.”

“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”

“Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.”

“I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.”

“Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.”

“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”

“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.”

“Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.”