
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.