To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.

Speak less and listen more.

Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

You have to be odd to be number one.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.