Sherwood Anderson

"It is a fact that every man is interested in beauty."

"The difficulty of literature is that it must be exact."

"To be successful one must be awake and working while others sleep."

"Death is the only thing that matters in life."

"The most elaborate of all human creations is the social network."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why few people engage in it."

"When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live."

"There is a kind of truth that comes only to those who have lived much and observed closely."

"The happiness of a man does not come from outside, but from his own heart and mind."

"I believe that all art should be the expression of one's own thought and not the imitation of another's."

"Nothing comes to those who do not go out to meet it."

"One must not lose his soul in order to succeed in the material world."

"The greatest thing in life is human fellowship and understanding."

"America is a story told by a man walking and looking around him."

"The real wealth is in friendships and understanding among men."

"Tears are the simplest language of the human heart."

"A man must learn to live with himself and be at peace with what he is."

"The task of any writer is to awaken himself and his reader to wonder."

"We are all afraid of something. The question is what we do about it."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

"The true education comes from learning to think for yourself."

"There is always magic in the actual facts of life."

"A man who does not think for himself is not really alive."

"The great thing about life is that it is always new."

"Men are like trees, they must bend with the wind or break."

"I have learned that people are not always what they seem."

"The love of beauty is the want of culture and refinement."

"What we all want is just to be understood and to understand others."

"There is a kind of poverty that comes from too much wanting."

"The real victory in life is becoming who you were meant to be."