There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

Whats the point of life if you're not rich XD

A giver's purse can never be paused.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.

The less men think the more they talk.

Fear dims when you learn things.

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.