If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be - crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.