I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist. I will trust luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.

Yesterday was my unlucky day. I pricked my right thumb with the blunt end of a big needle.

On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o'clock and no wonder; it was my birthday.

Oh, it's so hard, the eternal struggle between heart and mind. There's a time and a place for both, but how can I be sure that I've chosen the right time?

But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get

You have to be grateful whenever you get to someplace safe and okay, even if it turns out it wasn't quite where you were heading. The light you see when people are in the tunnel of deep trouble is domestic flashes of recognition and kitchen comforts, not Blake's radiance, which would be my preference.

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT

Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can't—and, in fact, you're not supposed to—know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

It's not time, Take it easy, Wait and see, It's someone else's turn - none of these stalls are appropriate for a leader in search of change. There's a small price for being too early, but a huge penalty for being too late. The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.