Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
You never know what motivates you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.