“There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential”

“Time is a created thing. To say I DON'T HAVE TIME is like saying I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.”

“Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.”

“There are silences harder to take back than words.”

“When I don't have something to worry about, I worry. Nothing comes so naturally to a human being as anxiety and worry.”

“Have I nothing new, nothing diverting, in my whimsical way, thou askest in one of thy letters to entertain thee with? and thou tellest me that, when I have least to narrate, to speak in the scottish phrase, I am most diverting, a pretty compliment either to thyself , or to me, to both indeed! a sign that thou hast as frothy a heart as I a head !”

“What is more yours than what always holds you back?”