“Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.”

“I am beginning to feel like part of a travelling circus.”

“An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”

“Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.”

“Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.”

“Failure is a necessary part of success.”

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.”

“I am one of those people whom the vulgar and illiberal call "Negurs."- The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience.”

“Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.”

“The problem isn't hierarchy, authority or superiority. The problem is that people in positions of authority or superiority did not take you as a part of themselves and thus did not consider you and thus did not act in alignment with your best interests.”