I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

To make initial inroads into manifesting a new life, first one has to acknowledge their current life.

When I am encouraged, I never see obstacles in my way, only exciting challenges.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

The idea that any president represents the world, by definition the United States must be diminished for that to happen.