The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If I despised myself it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me and if I respect myself it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

San Francisco businesses face many challenges including high rents regulatory burdens and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

I've never seen an obese person who has said 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.