“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”

Upon winning four Gold medals after the silver medal in his first race in Rome 2009.

Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

To the conception of the imperishable, the immortal, we oppose, in art, that of becoming, the perishable, the transitory, and the ephemeral.
We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters..., from War, the World's Only Hygiene (1911-1915)
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On the absence of people of color in her school curriculums in “‘My Writing is My Activism’: An Interview with Isabel Quintero” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-writing-is-my-activism-an-interview-with-isabel-quintero/ in Los Angeles Review of Books (2017 Feb 1)

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 22