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Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. - Author object (23)

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. - Author object (23)

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Author object (23)

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. - Author object (590)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Author object (396)

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - Author object (396)

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. - Author object (396)

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them. - Author object (396)

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic - Author object (396)

Art is what you can get away with. - Author object (396)

To play without passion is inexcusable! - Author object (302)

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Author object (302)

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window. - Author object (388)

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. - Author object (388)

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. - Author object (388)

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - Author object (388)

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. - Author object (388)

The past is never dead. It's not even past. - Author object (388)

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. - Author object (388)

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. - Author object (388)