“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations”

“Nobody suceeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

“The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven, if she stoops to such a one as he.”

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

“Some call it stocking, I call it love.”