The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

And which one of you wimpy men will be doing the killing?

Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

Perfection can be a fetish

I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.