I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...

To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something

Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life.

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.