History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?

I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

I never think any place is better than others.

Champions have no off-season.