Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.