I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

Great things only come with great effort.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.