“Live up to your potential, not down to others expectation.”

“Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.”

“If your greatest expectation is living up to everyone else' expectations ~ don't expect to be successful.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.”

“As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.”

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”