There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Author: Aldous Huxley

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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one - it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.