If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

Life keeps being a beautiful and frustrating experience.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.