In the Promised Land there were always a few people who kicked because the Milk was too yellow and the Honey too sweet. Fortitude is that quality of mind which does not care what happens as long as it does not happen to us. Do not try to produce Art - reproduce life, and let it go at that. Followers follow as far as the path is good, but at the first bog they balk. Doubters are always recruited from the ranks of the followers.
Art is largely a matter of hair-cut.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that men comprehend last. Joyous are the busy, dissatisfied the idle. The true solace for all private troubles is to lose yourself in your work. Breathe more, eat less, and think well of everybody - especially doctors. Life is a compromise between fate and free-will.