acceptance

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.