Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.