The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.