It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
