“A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.” 

“Write what should not be forgotten.” 

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

“If there is no struggle there is no progress.” 

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” 

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” 

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will... Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.” 

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” 

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” 

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” 

“To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.” 

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” 

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.” 

“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” 

The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.

Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at. Louis C.K.

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new.

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.