“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

“The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.”

“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”

“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”

“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”

“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“His work is full of the signs of those two cardinal sins from which (as Kafka pointed out) all the others spring: impatience and laziness. The work of every artist is conditioned by the way in which he resists or yields to these temptations.”

“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”