It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.