If you never have a go, you never, never know.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.