Henry James

"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."

"She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"Life is a predicament which precedes death."

"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

"Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance."