James Stephens

“And after a while you will look up and see the sun and you will not know that you are you.”

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

“Originality is not doing something no one has ever done before, but doing what has been done before, better.”

“What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”

“I have learned that I am a spirit, and that I can be whatever I want to be.”

“We get out of life what we put into it. The baker puts bread into the oven and gets bread out.”

“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”

“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of water.”

“A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. That is a very good beginning.”

“I am the maker of my own fortune, and I will be whatever I will to be.”

“If a man is to be a man, he must be a non-conformist.”

“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”