My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Real life seems to have no plots.
Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.