He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
The real things are apt to be deviant.
Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and not by their mediocrity, nor by their being commended. For several men praise several customs, and, contrarily, what one calls vice, another calls virtue, as their present affections lead them.